BOINC lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer (Windows, Mac, Linux) or Android device. BOINC downloads scientific computing jobs to your computer and runs them invisibly in the background. It's easy and safe.

About 30 science projects use BOINC; examples include Einstein@Home, IBM World Community Grid, and SETI@home. These projects investigate diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.

You can participate in either of two ways:

Choose science areas

To contribute to science areas (biomedicine, physics, astronomy, and so on) use Science United. Your computer will do work for current and future projects in those areas.

High-Throughput Computing with BOINC

BOINC is a platform for high-throughput computing
on a large scale (thousands or millions of computers).
It can be used for volunteer computing
(using consumer devices)
or grid computing (using organizational resources).
It supports virtualized, parallel, and GPU-based applications.

BOINC is distributed under the LGPL open source license.
It can be used for commercial purposes,
and applications need not be open source.

BOINC@TACC article
Check out For the Love of Science, a new article about the BOINC@TACC project at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
26 Jun 2019, 5:13:33 UTC
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BOINC web server fails, gets replaced
The machine hosting the BOINC web site, and Science United, failed last Friday, just after everyone had left for the weekend. Fortunately we were able to move the disks to another computer and we're back online as of this morning. We apologize for the inconvenience.
26 Jun 2019, 3:09:27 UTC
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